nouvelle cuisine

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He also explores yuppies’ attraction to marathons, nouvelle cuisine and Gary Hart, who ran a pair of lawyer-driven, technocratic campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

It’s the moment when old-school French — think white tablecloths, heavy sauces and snooty maitre’d’s — faded into the background, allowing nouvelle cuisine and what we now call New American to take its place.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

But, when I interviewed him in the nineteen-eighties, he took pains to distance himself from nouvelle cuisine.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

Paul Bocuse, the most celebrated French chef of the postwar era and a leading figure in the pathbreaking culinary movement known as nouvelle cuisine, died on Saturday, his family said in a statement.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2018

Long after his heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, when he was the world’s most visible proselytizer for nouvelle cuisine, he continued to command respect.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2018